Related%20passage for Taanit 33:15

והתניא רבי אומר אומר אני כהנים אסורין לשתות יין לעולם אבל מה אעשה שתקנתו קלקלתו ואמר אביי כמאן שתו האידנא כהני חמרא

Whence is this to be adduced? - Scripture uses the word yihyeh the numerical value of which is thirty.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' taken numerically, 10 + 5 + 10 + 5 + 30.');">¹²</span> R'Papa said to Abaye: Perhaps Scripture means [that the priests] should not let their hair grow at all? - The latter replied: Had Scripture written, 'nor suffer to grow long their locks', it might be as you suggest, but since Scripture has written, 'Nor suffer their locks to grow long,' this implies, they may grow their hair but they may not suffer their locks to grow long. If that is so, this restriction should be valid even at the present time! - [This restriction is] on the same lines as that the drinking of wine; just as the restriction of drinking wine applied only to the time when they might enter [the Temple]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., so long as the Temple was in being.');">¹³</span> to do service, so too with regard to the restriction of letting the locks grow long. But has it been taught: Rabbi says, I declare that [a priest] should not at any time drink wine, but what can I do, seeing that his misfortune turned out to be an advantage to him. And on this Abaye commented: At the present time according to whom do priests drink wine? According to Rabbi.

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